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The book Medicinal Plants of Uttarakhand: Diversity, Livelihood and Conservation is an attempt to synthesize diverse information on the medicinal plants. The book describes 964 medicinal plant species growing in various habitat types across the state from sub-tropical to alphine regions. More than 240 herbal formulations prepared by traditional Vaidyas for curing 73 types of ailments are also described in the book. The book portrays the number ...
This book is the outcome of my decade long studies on the Valley of Flowers. The ethereal and beautiful Valley of Flowers was notified as a National Park in 1982, and since then it has been caught in a strange controversy. The point of contention is that the conservation attempt is proving to be the problem rather than the solution. For the past two decades, there have been occasional reports about weeds choking the plant diversity of the region, but none of them ...